Firefox 3 to remember text zoom for specific web sites

By Percy Cabello

As previously announced, Firefox 3 will be able to remember selected preferences for specific web sites. Right now, the only implemented setting is text zoom: if you find a web page’s text too large or small for you, change it (Ctrl + MouseWheel, Ctrl+=, Ctr+-), and the next time you visit the web site Firefox will automatically resize the text for you.

But this is only the beginning. This new feature enables all sort of site specific preferences like enable/disable JavaScript, Java, images, set a specific dictionary language or character encoding, whether to accept cookies or not, a preferred context search engine, page print settings, etc. that could be added through extensions.

Posted on June 25, 2007 - 8:58 pm || More on Firefox, Firefox 3, News

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bush

June 26, 2007 8:58 pm

thank god, at last! great!

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Joshua

June 26, 2007 8:58 pm

can u tell me when the new firefox3.0 comes out so i can get it and do more and have faster downloads others to but i want to know when is it going to be out on site i have 2.0.0.4, but i need to have the 3.0.0.0 firefox. is that ok to know or you can just send me an e-mail to me.

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Percy Cabello

June 27, 2007 8:58 pm

Joshua, there’s no release date set yet. Based on alpha and beta release schedule, the current product requirements document and past Firefox releases, my guess is sometime in December.

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Jason S.

July 3, 2007 8:58 pm

So, you mean within a year or so it’ll finally catch up to where Opera already was a year and a half ago? That’s superb!

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Percy Cabello

July 3, 2007 8:58 pm

Jason S., that’s more less correct, except that Firefox 3 will be out most likely late this year and I believe Opera has had site-specific preferences for longer than a year and a half.

When you realize that software features jump from one to another in both directions over time perhaps you will make more accurate comments. In the meantime if you need site specific preferences, try Opera.

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July 3, 2007 8:58 pm

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Muniz

July 4, 2007 8:58 pm

Why zoom only the text when you can zoom the hole page? I dont get it… But I love Firefox. :/

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Matt

October 7, 2007 8:58 pm

If it is possible, I would like textsize to auto resize EVERY site and always remember it when I open it.

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Sam

October 30, 2007 8:58 pm

I believe it has already been said, but why can’t Firefox enlarge the entire page, not just the text?

I do still prefer Firefox on the whole but the zoom feature can actually make some text harder to read (placing it over borders, images etc.)

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Percy Cabello

October 30, 2007 8:58 pm

Sam, Firefox 3 will bring full page zoom: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/firefox-gets-full-page-zoom/

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November 22, 2007 8:58 pm

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John

January 11, 2008 8:58 pm

I will always use now this function.

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February 11, 2008 8:58 pm

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March 11, 2008 8:58 pm

[...] great new features that I’m especially fond of include site specific preferences (which also means that zoom settings for individual sites are retained and applied automatically [...]

Nix

August 21, 2008 8:58 pm

I think there’s a problem with privacy. Even if I clear all personal data, the list of pages with custom zoom is written somewhere on my HD. How to clear it??????

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JonboyAugust 24th, 2008 at 11:19 am

I also am concerned about this.

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StudesMay 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pm

Me Too. THIS IS A BIG PRIVACY PROBLEM.

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Steve

August 28, 2008 8:58 pm

Text is small on my high-res monitor so I bump up the text with ctrl++. Now with this 3.0 feature I have to increase the text size for every page instead of just once.

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mike

July 7, 2009 8:58 pm

“I think there’s a problem with privacy. Even if I clear all personal data, the list of pages with custom zoom is written somewhere on my HD. How to clear it??????”

I agree.

Big privacy problem

how do we clear that list?

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